Elements of Tarot: Water

Water:

Tarot Symbols: Cups, Vessels, Cauldrons, Shells, Hearts
Rain, Wells, Rivers, Lakes, Dams, Oceans, Storms

Emotional plane:

Feelings, Intuition, Dreams, Childhood, Early memories

Subconscious messages, Nurturing, Relationships, 

The need to give and receive, Flow, Receptivity

Key Word:

I feel

Suggested Ritual:

Ice Cube Magic

Each of the elements may be expressed in one of three modalities: cardinal (starts things), fixed (stabilizes) or mutable (changes). Ice cubes are in essence fixed water (Scorpio in astrology) and represent fixed emotions. Whether you feel fixated on the past, obsessed with changing the present, or fully focused on the future, ice cube magic may ease your way.

Take an ice cube from the freezer. Grab a permanent marker: black, blue or red ink work best. Write on the ice cube anything you want to see dissolve, shift, or change: grief, jealousy, stress, debt, taxes, the name of an ex-lover, your boss, cancer, etc. If the tip freezes, it's okay, you can imagine invisible ink or switch to using your athame or a sharp knife to scratch in the word(s).

Put it on a small plate, preferably in the sun. You can sit and watch the ice cube dissolve, noticing all the emotions that well up in your being and dissolve through tears. Or you can go out and do something completely else - the spell will be working in your subconscious the whole time.

Now, what to do with your melted emotions. You can pour the water down the toilet, flushing it completely away. You can pour it on an outside plant, allowing new growth to emerge. Be creative, yet keep it simple; invite ease and flow into your life.

Blessed be.

What I Like to Listen To

My lovers voice - I love listening to the rich tones, whether reading from a book of poetry or telling me about the day. It fills me with pleasure, an aural ambrosia.

My Self - The more I follow my own voices, the easier everything seems.

Music - radio, stereo, singing in the car, shower or while doing housekeeping. Sometimes while working, it is pleasing to have the companionship of human voices in my rather solitary environment.

My Clients - I love their stories. I never get bored. I love listening to their struggles and ultimately their solutions.

Nature - the sound of sea lions and the fog horn through the window at night, the splatter of rain on the windows, the soothing hum of tires on asphalt.

My heart - When I go deep and do my 3, 2, 1 meditation, I really listen to my heart and all it has to say in each of it’s four chambers, what it has to tell me right now.

My body - The pulse in my feet, the creak in my knees, the crack in my shoulders as I twist for relief. Each twinge and ache a message, a chance to respond, to take care of my self.

My cat’s purr - 'nuff said.

What do you like to listen to?

Listening Vs. Hearing

Hearing is the sound of the radio driving my teenager to school in the morning.

Listening is actually paying attention to the lyrics, the tug on my memories as an emotion is recaptured, a certain rhythm or beat that seems to fluctuate with my own life blood.

I hear your words...

I listen to your eyes, your body, your fingers touching mine.

I  hear your story...

I listen to the quality of your voice, the timbre and tempo, the courage it took to utter these words, the risk in revealing your more transparent needs.

I hear you say “I love you..."

I’m listening to your heart, your doubts, your fears, your hopes, your dreams.

Hearing is empathy.

Listening is compassion.

Do you hear me?

Are you listening right now?

Hearing is temporal.

Listening is eternal.

Change Comes

The Heart That Rejoices

Each Condition

She Changes